Sierra Leone People's Party

The Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) is a social democratic and nationalist political party in Sierra Leone which was founded in 1951 by Albert Margai. It dominated Sierra Leone's politics from 1951 to 1967, when it lost the parliamentary elections to the All People's Congress. It returned to power when Ahmad Tejan Kabbah won the 1996 presidential election, and it continued to be in power until 2007; it retrned to power in 2018.